Mumsnet “norms” that annoy you most

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For me it’s the utterly obscure baby names. We’ve all seen them and I’m quite sure nobody uses them in real life. Yet on MN, it’s apparently standard.

Honourable mention to the 50% of posters whose husbands are earning upwards of £100K too.

the long term posters with familiar names who have high powered jobs but are instantly there to contribute at all hours of the day and night

Yes this. I'm old enough to remember the whisky loving Judge

Either that it its the answer to everyones housing problem / COL crisis....Can't afford London, move North it will be the answer to all your prayers. Despite the fact that you have to move your kids school, know nobody there and have no job there either it will still answer all your prayers.

I'd say the answer to that is probably thar they want ideas today and not in 3 weeks time, when they might be fortunate enough to get an appointment, unless they go private.

No a spare room is for the lodger you will need to take in when you can longer afford to eat.

Head tilt and tinkly laugh!!!

Remember there are two places to live in the UK:

1. London - busy, dirty, noisy, grim, littered with tedious museums and your child will either cough up a lung or be stabbed to death.
2. 'Very rural' villages - racist, insular, boring, littered with tedious old people and your child will either develop a heroin habit or steal a tractor

Oh god, the Endowment Mortgage. "Villa in Spain I adore you we waited 20 years for you ". Until the Endowment Mortgage didn’t even cover the price of the house, let alone an extra holiday home at the end.

90% of posters seem to be in ‘high pressured’ jobs managing a team of 30 and yet have time to be posting on MN middle of the day 🤣

Also- on light hearted posts, there is ALWAYS one who has to come and change the tone of the thread

eg- when did you cry over something petty/not worthy ‘lighthearted’ and then one comes and says not petty it was my mum dad grandad grandma sisters and brothers were all killed in a road traffic accident

Or someone moaning about their mum/husband whoever and then the ones who come and say ‘i would give anything to have 2 seconds with them again’

Oh the irony. 🤣

Endowment mortgage - that's it.

(And to be clear SIL ended up with no house and had to pay the bank £30k of negative equity - not that she lost £30k in value. Didn't explain that very well.)

The judging the twisting of ops words.

" I mean this kindly "

No understanding that one day the shit could hit the fan and you could be left with nothing.

They think they have the answer.

80 year old mum/inlaw sleeping on a blow up bed. Because 7 year old princess DD can't possibly give up her bed.

Yep. It's an extremely skewed view of 'real life'.

There used to be this idea of MN being reflective of 'real life and real women'

But like any Internet forum it became something else. It's overrun by trolls and fakery. And a lot of people saying what they wouldn't ever say in RL because it's not true.

That isn't a criticism of MNHQ but just social media in general. It's not real life

There was all my grandparents are dead on a thread the other day. Bizarrely it was on a thread that hadn't mentioned grandparents at all before then.

My favourite is the people who say they can never go out in the evenings because they don't have family locally. Like babysitters are some bizarre newfangled invention

I like the 'what colour are your eyes' threads. No one on MN has just brown or blue eyes. They're always a soft, Hague blue with flecks of marine and in some lights they look Mediterranean green.

Should I have another baby?

I’m pregnant what should I do? Always followed by you have options

anyone pregnant over 40 that seems to really bring out the angroids

Tell me what a two year age gap between children is like

having a cleaner

shopping at booths

the term ‘furbaby’
wait so you shagged a dog?

mumsnet is full of inflated egos superiority complexes and just plain fantasists

Oh god, the Endowment Mortgage. "Villa in Spain I adore you we waited 20 years for you ". Until the Endowment Mortgage didn’t even cover the price of the house, let alone an extra holiday home at the end.

Aye, we had one of those. Three in fact. All for the same house. All ok until the endless warning letters started dropping in about 'shortfalls' of thousands and listing our unrealistic options. The red capital letter warnings were very scary. We called them 'brown trouser' alerts🤣 (when we weren't crying into our cornflakes) But, hey, our generation had it easy and doesn't understand.

😂😂😂😂😂

I agree. Absolutely some horrific transphobic things said on MN. I do report them and as my previous posed said MN does delete.

The point I was making is that many posters seem to claim there is no transphobia on MN. It’s not the brag they think it is when we know what actually happens on the site.

the term ‘furbaby’
wait so you shagged a dog?

Sheep, surely? 🤣
And ‘furbaby’ makes me think of batty old ladies wheeling their beribboned Yorkshire terrier in a pink pram.

I remember on one of the many shall I move out of London threads ,one poster advised the Op,not to because they had done themselves and had moved somewhere very rural with one bus a week and everything else shut down after 5pm
because nowhere else in the UK can possibly have big towns and cities with good transport ,24 hour service for everything😂

"NC for this because..."

Surely the point of name changing so that you fly under the radar? So not only have you not contribued to your post, but you've just outed yourself and sparked curiousity in your readers.

Like you wouldn't put on a different coloured wig and colour correcting contact lenses, then go around telling people you don't really look like this. It defeats the point.

You might say I'm... "struggling to understand it"

Who knows on here 😂

No they weren’t… they were saying the “very rural” area they’d moved to had shit public transport and shops closed at 5.

which is.. very often true in “very rural” areas!!

Some people claim it's 'transphobic' to simply point out that the vast majority of transwomen have a penis.

Or to point out that the census data shows that transwomen are 5 times more likely than other men to be convicted sex offenders. These are simply facts.

It's not manphobic to not want men in changing rooms because men commit around 98% of sex crimes.

It's not transphobic to not want transwomen in our changing rooms because they have the same (or worse) offending patterns as other male people.

It's to avoid all the "interesting first post" comments.